Improvement in wood fences



D. G. TEMPLE.

Wood-Fence-s. N0.136,679.

Patented March n, 187s.

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DANIEL G. TEMPLE, OF FARMERSVILLE'LOUISLQNA.

IMPROVEMENT IN wooo FENcEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,679, dated March 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Gr. TEMPLE, of

, Farmersville, in the parish of Union and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful I Improvement in Picket and other Fences, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of -my improved fence. Fig. 2 is a view of the other side of a portion of the same. Fig. 3 is a top v1ew of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improvedfastening for securing pickets and other upright boards or planks to the horizontal bars of; the fence, which shall be simple in construction, readily applied, and substantial and reliable in operation, holding the pickets,

boards, or planks firmly and securely. Thel invention consists in the combination-of the two wires and clinched bolts with the posts, horizontal bars, and pickets, boards, or planks, in the manner hereinafter fully'described.

A represents the posts, which are set in the ground in the ordinary manner, and to which` groove-or neck formed upon said bolts. The wire E is passed along the bar B upon the side opposite the pickets, and the ends of the bolts or spikes F are bent'down or clinched around the said wire E.

If desired, the end of the-bolts F may be split to facilitate the clinching. By passing the wire E alternately above and below the ends of the bolts F, and,v clinching said ends alternately upward and downward, the wire E will take a slightly zigzag direction, and will thus be drawn taut, and will draw against the body of the bolts instead of against their turned-over points. The wires D E are `secured to the posts A. 'n

In case the boards or planks C are to be placed closeI together to form a close fence the bolts F are passed through the middle parts of said boards or planks, '.aslshown in Figs. l and 3, and the wires D E areconnected with them, as hereinbefore described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the twowires D E and the clinched bolts or spikes F with the posts .A, horizontal bars B, and pickets, boards, or

planks C, in substantially the manner herein shown and described. 5

DANIEL GOODUL TEMPLE.

' Witnesses:

H. H. HAM, Jr., w. B. H. PON. 

